[TomB]

Hers's some more oil:

Canada could have an answer to U.S. oil woes

The U.S. government itself mentioned one possible solution in Vice-President Dick Cheney's recent energy report: Alberta's oil sands, a vast ocean of tar-like goo in the northern part of the province. By most estimates, there is more oil in the so-called "tar sands" than there is in all of Saudi Arabia, or about 300 billion barrels that is recoverable using existing technology. That's enough to supply the United States for more than 40 years ? plus there's another 1.5 trillion to two trillion barrels on top of that, which would be harder to extract. That's 10 times what Saudi Arabia has.

[backhoe]

Thanks for that info & link- I recalled the story, but don't have the link around here.

Coal is another source routinely slandered by the press- they always show belching, billowing stacks pouring out clouds a ink-black smoke- when nothing could be further from the truth.

In the mid-1960's, I visited Plant McManus here- the power plant.
They burned pulverized coal at the time, and all you could see leaving the stack was clear heat waves.

No smoke- none!
The technology has lept light-years ahead since then, too.